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Welcome Milt Priggee to seattlepi.com

Way back about a thousand years ago, when I got into the cartooning business, I met another young, aspiring visual commentator named Milt Priggee.

Milt was then working for Crain’s Chicago Business; I had just started at the P-I. I remember one long night that slipped into dawn at an editorial cartoonists’ convention in Nashville when he and I talked and talked about our hopes and dreams for great careers.

Milt’s work life has taken a more rugged path than mine. I’ve been lucky enough to have a string of editors and publishers who understood their job was to defend me, not censor me. Milt, unfortunately, has had the opposite experience. Now, however, he’s found a place where he can say anything he pleases — seattlepi.com.

Priggee has joined our Seattle Views team and readers will be able to find his commentary on a regular basis right here. You can also find a lot more of his work, including animated cartoons, at his website, miltpriggee.com.

As I shift gears to add a broader national audience in the string of Hearst newspapers stretching from Connecticut and New York to Texas and California, Milt Priggee will be taking aim at targets close to home in the Northwest. I am excited to have my friend Milt join me. And, you know what? This gives seattlepi.com two more editorial cartoonists than any other local news web site.

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